Teeth on jaws are small, conical and sharp . Placed in a narrow band not 

 forming a complete or entire cutting edge (as in Bryostemma ). Smsdl sharp teeth 

 on vomer andpalatme. About 15 gill rakers whose length is less than, in examples 

 of B . polyactocephalum of the same size , Between inricr and outer rows of gill 

 rakers is a sharp ridge. Cirrus on head weaker developed than in B. polyacto - 

 cephalum , One unpaired cirrus on snout . Two pair between eyes . Anterior one 

 higher, with fringes, posterior one lower and branched. Nape and occiput covered 

 with thickly branched cirri. This form of cirri also on 1-3 dorsal ray. A pair 

 of cirri on chin . Two or three on upper part of gill cover . Cirri absent from 

 gill membrane and side of head. 



Body covered with small scales reaching behind pectoral. Head naked. LL re- 

 duced to 5-6 pores, not reaching to vertical from anterior half of pectoral fm. 

 Dorsal and anal connected to caudal by a membrane. Anal origin under 15th dorsal 

 ray. Color poorly preserved, but m general not different from that described by 

 Jordan and Snyder. Dark ocelli on the 4th and 7th dorsal rays are clearly evident. 

 On the edge of the gill membrane is a thin dark line . Female with mature large 

 eggs diameter 1.4 mm (average of 10). Some of the measurements follow: 



In percentage of total length. Head 13.2, depth at anal base 12.5, pectoral 

 lengiJi 1 1 . 8 . In percentage of head, eye 30.0, snout 17.5, ventral fin 30.0, 

 longest dorsal spine 35.0. 



B. lysimus was heretofore known from three examples from Unalaska. Our 

 example from St. Matthew Id. According to A. Y. Taranetz, it occurs in the Okhotsk 

 Sea (56° II' 7 N, 143° 19' E, depth 165 meters) as a separate subspecies. 



8 1 . Alectrias alectrolophus (Pallas) 



This littoral species is very common in the Asiatic north Pacific, Japan and 

 Okhotsk Seas, and on the coasts of East Kamchatka and the Commander Id. It is 

 known from St. Michael where Bean (Proc. USNM, 4, 1882, p. 245) records it as Ano- 

 plarchus atropurpureus (Kittlitz). On the Aleutian and American coast south, it is 

 replaced by Anoplarchus cristagali (Gunther) and subspecies. Our examples were 

 taken in May and June from the littoral of Bering Id. & Medni Id. by E. Kardakova. 



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Gill membranes connect to each other at an angle, and weakly connect to the 

 isthmus forming abroad fold. LI is hardly noticeable, consisting of a row of 

 pores visible only under enlargement. Dorsal to middle LI is another rudimentary 

 line of microscopic pores . 



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